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SAGE

PARTNERING FOR ROAD SAFETY, REDUCED EMISSIONS AND GROWTH IN EUROPE

Today’s great challenges include making road vehicles radically more green, safe and intelligent. One obvious course for solving this situation is research and technical solutions. Another is societal clustering building activitiesand strategic cluster management. The SAGE aim is just this; to strengthen regional capacity in research andinnovation and thereby support the transformation of road vehicle technology and market.The SAGE partnership consists of five regional research driven automotive clusters. The project runs from 2011 to 2014 and is financed by the European Union 7th Framework Programme within the theme Regions of Knowledge.

KEY ACTIVITIES:

Map and analyse the participating regions in regard to competences and cluster organisation for safe and green road vehicles

Expand the SAGE network with emerging regional clusters and offer support to increase their capacity

Map and analyse selected automotive clusters in Asia and suggest strategies for cooperation

Develop a common SAGE agenda with long and short term goals for innovation, research and education

Implement the common agenda through concrete activities such as research projects, student mobility and new policy instruments

Market the clusters world-wide and promote the strengths of the respective regions

Latest News

08.01.2014: The EC steps up its support to towns and cities in a new urban mobility package

Published 8 January

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19.12.2013: Volvo Cars initiates a world unique Swedish pilot project with self-driving cars on public roads

Published: 19 December 2013

Volvo Cars will play a leading role in the world’s first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the Swedish city of Gothenburg.The ground-breaking project ‘Drive Me – Self-driving cars for sustainable mobility’ is a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park and the City of Gothenburg.

07.08.2013: Volvo launches silent electric buses in Gothenburg

Published: 7 August 2013

Buses that operate silently and with no emissions, which pick up passengers at indoor stops and run on renewable electricity — this will be the reality for an ultramodern bus route in Gothenburg starting in 2015. The technology will provide completely new opportunities for public transport in the cities of the future. Behind the initiative is the Volvo Group, in collaboration with the Swedish Energy Agency, Västra Götaland Region, the City of Gothenburg, Göteborg Energi, Västtrafik, Lindholmen Science Park and Johanneberg Science Park.

Road fatalities across the EU have decreased by 9% in 2012. According to new figures published by the European Commission today, 2012 saw the lowest number of people killed in road traffic in EU countries since the first data were collected.Vice-President Siim Kallas, Commissioner for transport, said, "2012 was a landmark year for European road safety, with the lowest ever number of road deaths recorded. A 9% decrease means that 3,000 lives were saved last year. It is hugely encouraging to see these kinds of results. St

The European Commission published today new guidelines on how Member States should use financial incentives to best increase demand for low CO2 emission vehicles.Currently, rules on financial incentives differ across the EU, but a common framework could help facilitate the assembly of larger quantities of such vehicles, prompting lower prices for consumers. Incentives can be useful instruments to foster the low CO2 producing vehicle industry, but they can also create trade distortions